Gardening

[cjsmith]

CA Bay Area garden-savvy folks, if you wanted to plant herbs and/or a few veggies (corn, tomatoes, cantaloupe, carrots) and you hadn't done a blessed thing up 'til now -- no seedlings in pots in a sunny room, nothing -- what would you choose to plant soon?

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[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, I'm fine with hand-pollinating. That's what we did when we had a big hydroponic setup in the Palo Alto apartment. We grew tomatoes, corn, and cantaloupe hydroponically. We had to put stakes in to hold the corn up, because the plants didn't bother growing any roots. For lack of anyplace else to put the cantaloupe vines we draped them up and over the fence, eventually finding most of that harvest in the neighbors' back yard. And yeah, hand-pollination for the corn. The tomatoes probably worked the best; those were for me, and MMM YUM they were good.